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dapperest

dapperest is the superlative form of dapper.

Meaning of dapper

Adjective

dapper (comparative dapperer, superlative dapperest)

  1. Neat, trim.
    • This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner...1892, Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp
  2. Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
    • “It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 71
  3. Quick; little and active.

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Questions about dapperest

What is dapperest the superlative form of?
Dapperest is the superlative form of dapper.

Words near dapperest in the dictionary

  1. dapper
  2. Dapper Dan
  3. Dapper Dans
  4. dappered up
  5. dapperer
  6. dapperest
  7. dapperling
  8. dapperlings
  9. dapperly
  10. dapperness
  11. dappers

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